no UI after dist-upgade -f

eljaco · 11-27-2005, 03:52 PM

Hey,

I recently upgraded to 5.10 (Breeze) and it was running fine. I don't remember why I did this (probably to install some program or because I read it in some post) but I called

Quote:

apt-get dist-upgrade -f

and it then asked me to restart. Once the system booted back up, I only got the command login. I tied running startx, but this comes up (same for gdm and kdm)

Code:

sudo: startx: command not found

.
Please let me know if there is some diagnostic or troubleshooting steps I should follow in order to get this fixed.

Thanks!

eljaco · 11-27-2005, 04:32 PM

I just ran

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apt-get upgrade

and there seems to be a lot of dkpg errors. The summary at the end specifies errors encountered while processing postfix, mailx, mutt, and lsb-core.
I have no clue what to do.

Rory in Toronto · 12-07-2005, 10:05 PM

I had the same problem. Seems to load okay and then gets to starting Gnome/KDE and... nothing...

startx, kdm, gdm don't work.

Would love if anyone has a suggestion so I can save some of my files rather than having to wipe my drive and start over.

Rory

eljaco · 12-07-2005, 10:12 PM

try this:
ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=95942

I got it fixed using

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sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

Rory in Toronto · 12-07-2005, 10:15 PM

Where can I type your command from, though, if I can only get to a text login and can't get in to a ui/desktop?

eljaco · 12-07-2005, 10:17 PM

Well, log in normally with your username and password in the command prompt and then just run the command.
If you don't see a way to log on, what text comes up when you are stuck?